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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <140@atari.UUcp>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 03:29:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 03:29:04 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Mar-86 03:36:56 EST
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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NBS was running version 6 Unix on a PDP-11/45 with four RL02 packs.
It took nearly half a day to backup the system.  Half a day to copy
four 10 megabyte packs???

The operators (who didn't know any better -- they'd been given a
canned procedure) were typing in DD commands to copy from one pack
to another.  They were using a buffer size of ten BYTES....


-L